Less Talk, More Do

I am a design engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, working with the Theme Team to address the design concerns of millions of WordPress users.

• September 26th, 2007

  Kevin Rose removed from Top Diggers Lists

  Some of you may have noticed that Kevin Rose (Digg user kevinrose) no longer appears in both the Digg’s Top 100 and Top 1,000 Users lists. It was recently brought to my attention that Kevin’s profile page shows that he has submitted 295 stories to Digg, but somehow, 298 of his submissions have reached the [...]

• September 20th, 2007

  Fuzzy math

  Digg updated their profile sections, but they still havent fixed their custom math library that has allowed Kevin Rose to have 101% of his submissions hit the homepage.

• July 8th, 2007

  Pownce has a big security problem

  Kevin Rose’s latest project, Pownce, has a glaring security problem on its front page. The JavaScript that Pownce uses in its login form can reveal your password in plain text on the screen. Here are the steps to reproduce the problem in Firefox: Login to Pownce via http://www.pownce.com/. Allow Firefox to save your login information [...]

• June 27th, 2007

  Kevin Rose’s new project: Pownce

  Digg founder Kevin Rose’s “IM competitor” startup that was hyped on Digg two months ago has been introduced, and it appears to be a Twitter clone with support for posting files. It’s named Pownce, and it calls itself “a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends.” It’s invite-only right now (I’m [...]